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r/unitedkingdom

United Kingdom. For the United Kingdom of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) and Northern Ireland; News, Politics, Economics, Society, Business, Culture, discussion and anything else UK related. Founded 2008 · 5.5M members

5.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 72.4K upvotes, which works out to 13 per 1,000 members.

13peak upvotes per 1,000 members
5.6Mmembers
72.4Kbest post
8.5Kmost comments
1.1Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

97%
Link 97% Image 1% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

... 93 . 92 .. 19 OC/Image 17 Satire 12 Site changed title 10 Comments Restricted to r/UK'ers 7 Comments Restricted+ 5 OC/Ask 2 - 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Queen Elizabeth II has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace announces

↑ 72.4K 💬 8.3K link 2022

Teenager was fined for reporting stalker to police 5 times before he killed her

↑ 47.7K 💬 2.2K link 2021

JD Vance calls UK 'some random country that hasn't fought war in 30 years'

↑ 43.5K 💬 5K link 2025

A scene from "V for Vendetta"? Nope, a silent vigil in London for a woman allegedly murdered by a serving police officer in 2021

↑ 35.5K 💬 2.4K image 2021

COVID-19: Boris Johnson announces new national lockdown for England

↑ 33.9K 💬 8.5K link 2021

Half of British people think TV coverage of the Queen's death has been too much

↑ 33.6K 💬 2.3K link 2022

No you didn't!

↑ 32.9K 💬 1.9K image 2022

The Daily Mail vs Basically Everyone Else

↑ 31.8K 💬 2.1K gallery 2022

The terrifying truth: Britain’s a hothouse, but one day 40C will seem cool - This extreme heat is just the beginning. We should be scared, and channe…

↑ 27.9K 💬 4.5K link 2022

Boris Johnson has agreed to resign, but wants to stay on as PM until new Tory leader elected by autumn

↑ 26.5K 💬 4.8K link 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/unitedkingdom, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/unitedkingdom?
r/unitedkingdom ("United Kingdom") describes itself this way: For the United Kingdom of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) and Northern Ireland; News, Politics, Economics, Society, Business, Culture, discussion and anything else UK related. It was founded in 2008 and has 5.5M members.
How many members does r/unitedkingdom have?
r/unitedkingdom has about 5.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 72.4K upvotes, which is 13 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/unitedkingdom?
"Queen Elizabeth II has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace announces" reached 72.4K upvotes and 8.3K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/unitedkingdom.
What subreddits are similar to r/unitedkingdom?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/agedlikemilk.
What kind of posts do best on r/unitedkingdom?
Of the posts we hold, 97% are link posts and 1% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/unitedkingdom?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 17:00 UTC (9.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 08:00 UTC (8.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (8.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/unitedkingdom?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/unitedkingdom has 20K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 323 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/unitedkingdom, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.